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Article: SWIFT ACTION SAVED THE DAY How Arandell got shipment back on track Train derailment held up 369,000 catalogs
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1996
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Don Landis was at a blackjack table in Las Vegas at 7 o'clock one
morning in 1992 when his beeper went off. He called his employer,
Arandell Corp., the Menomonee Falls-based printer, and heard dire
news.
A Santa Fe Railroad freight train had derailed the day before
near Marceline, Mo. The train had been carrying a truck trailer
holding 369,000 catalogs printed by Arandell and headed for post
offices in Los Angeles.
It was Wednesday, and the catalogs had to be in customers' homes
by Tuesday, and Monday was Memorial Day.
"All I know, I was at this nice postal convention in Las Vegas and
staying in this nice room, and the next thing I know I'm in Lenexa,
Kan., staying in a Howard Johnson. It ...